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AN UNUSUAL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE TABLE SCREEN

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Price realisedUSD 23,900

EstimateUSD 7,000 - USD 10,000

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AN UNUSUAL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE TABLE SCREEN
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The front well carved in high relief with a scene of Shoulao holding a peach in one hand while the other rests on the back of a deer standing beside him, his staff hung with a double-gourd flask held by his attendant, all beneath the spreading branches of a pine tree, with a crane perched on the lower branch and its mate in the openwork branches of the top of the tree which is carved in the round on the reverse, the bottom of the screen on the reverse carved in relief with hills and the tops of trees, the stone of pale celadon color with a small area of opaque ivory alteration in one of the bottom corners
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high, stand